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He is co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History,Series Editor of The Cambria African Studies Series, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press.

For his singular and distinguished contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with three Festschriften - two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and The Foundation of Nigeria:Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and one edited by Akin Ogundiran, Pre-Colonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola.

Decolonizing African Studies

Also in 2022, Decolonizing African Studies was released. I’ll focus on just three of them here.

1. Born Oloruntoyin Falola in 1953 in the Nigerian city of Ibadan, he grew up in a sprawling, polygamous household that practised Islam, Christianity and ancient Yoruba spirituality. And more importantly, Falola’s work serves as a powerful antidote to the constant onslaughts of afropessimism and probably by extension, anti-blackness in the contemporary age.

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Such myths were promoted in the grand narratives of colonialism and the European imperial project.

The #FeesMustFall student protest movement that grew out of the University of Cape Town as part of an attack on the legacy of the arch-colonialist Cecil John Rhodes became a nation-wide campaign. He has recently published an acclaimed memoir, A Mouth Sweeter than Salt: An African Memoir.

African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems

Published in 2022, African Spirituality, Politics, and Knowledge Systems: Sacred Words and Holy Realms was in part inspired by Falola’s interactions with a Nigerian political scientist, Samuel Oloruntoba.

Instead, he undertakes a form of intellectual therapy by engaging with “alternative archives created by memory, spoken words, images and photographs”, as the blurb of the British edition puts it.

Books by Toyin Falola

A History of Nigeria
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3.85 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions

A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
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4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions

Africa, vol.1: African History Before 1885
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3.58 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions

Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide
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4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions

Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions

The Yoruba Diaspora In The Atlantic World
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4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions

ORISA: Yoruba Gods and Spiritual Identity in Africa and the Diaspora
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions

Culture and Customs of Nigeria
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions

The Politics of the Global Oil Industry: An Introduction
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3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions

The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions

Violence in Nigeria: The Crisis of Religious Politics and Secular Ideologies
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

Nationalism and African Intellectuals
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions

Africa, Volume 5: Contemporary Africa
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions

United States and Africa Relations, 1400s to the Present
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions

Africa, vol.

He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press.

Since he is so productive, it’s difficult to offer a cohesive account of his multifaceted work.

In this manner, African perspectives, beliefs and norms are recuperated as a way of furthering a decolonial project. For his singular and distinguished contribution to the study of Africa, his students and colleagues have presented him with three Festschrifts - two edited by Adebayo Oyebade, The Transformation of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and The Foundations of Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola, and one edited by Akin Ogundiran, Pre-Colonial Nigeria: Essays in Honor of Toyin Falola.

This book is particularly relevant for the South African context. Falola has produced something like 200 books in all areas of the human and social sciences, and travels widely to deliver lectures at conferences and public events.

Read more: Nigerian historian and thinker Toyin Falola on decolonising the academy in Africa

Africa and its diasporas (including Africans in the US, Brazil, Cuba and the Caribbean) are his overriding concern and sites of study.

A Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, he is the author of numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers. Such is the scope of this African scholar.

Read more: Explainer: what is decolonisation?

Falola’s copious research outputs debunk the fallacy that Africa was without history, consciousness or mind.

He has received various awards and honors, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence. 4: The End of Colonial Rule: Nationalism and Decolonization
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions

Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions

Africa, vol.